The "Best of Birmingham" feature in the September 2006 issue of Birmingham Magazine noted Bhamwiki's historical resources in the context of Birmingham history websites publicized on Wade on Birmingham.

An article on Bhamwiki was published in The Birmingham News on November 25, 2006, written by Erin Stock. Site traffic for November 25 was approximately 7 times our average load and we signed on 10 new editors over the weekend.

On February 11, 2007 the site was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.9.2 on PHP 5.1.2. The size of the database overstepped the memory limits for the web server when the PHP update scripts were run, meaning that for several hours edit attempts returned a database error.

On March 22, 2007 the Birmingham Weekly made us their weekly pick for Monday March 26, encouraging readers to consult Bhamwiki to "learn a ton about our tortured, beloved, conflicted, potential-rich and angst-ridden Birmingham," and also to "double-check the facts you find."

On March 28, 2007 the site was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.9.3.

The 2100th article was Geneva Mercer, added by Dystopos on April 4, 2007.

An article entitled "Virtual Networks: An Opportunity for Government" in the Spring 2008 issue of The Public Manager mentioned Bhamwiki as an example of a municipal wiki that improves "people's ability to understand and control their government through citizen engagement in the political process."

The August issue of Birmingham magazine included an article entitled "Birmingham on the Web", featuring Bhamwiki as "a resource for a quick overview on any number of Birmingham-related topics." Seventeen other valuable sites were listed, including our sister site, the Magic City Flickr Group.

On August 5 Bhamwiki began using Twitter.com to publicize new or interesting articles. (link)

The 4500th article was Will Ferniany, added by User:Dystopos on August 10, 2008.

The site suffered prolonged outages due to a bad firewall rule on its file server on August 26-27.

The 4600th article was Roberts Cemetery, added by User:Dystopos on August 27, 2008.

The 4700th article was John Longwell, added by User:Dystopos on September 23, 2008.

On September 29 a beta / mirror version of Bhamwiki, hosted by the Birmingham Public Library, went live at bhamwiki.org.

On October 17 the Birmingham News posted the results of its "Best of the Best" readers' poll. Bhamwiki.com finished fourth behind al.com, bhamterminal.com, and nbc13.com for "Best Local Web Site".

The Aztec, New Mexico Chamber of Commerce cited Bhamwiki as an example of a proven success in using the wiki concept "to help foster community and commerce." [1]. Their wording may have been taken from the FAQ for the WikiCity website project. [2]

The 4900th article was Jim Reed, added by User:Wheresdib on December 22, 2008.

The 7,200th article was Monte D'Oro, added by User:Dystopos on August 9.

On August 23, I quietly changed all mentions of "BhamWiki" to "Bhamwiki" in the main page.

Sometime in August 2010 we passed the 8 million page views milestone, as recorded at Special:Statistics.

The 7,300th article was Hayes K-8 School, added by User:Dystopos on September 14.

The 7,400th article was Kendal Brown, added by User:Dystopos on October 26.

A mysterious error involving server-side output compression causes the site to become inaccessible on October 28. A good samaritan stepped in early October 30 and commented out the offending line in the site's php.ini file. I'm still trying to determine what triggered the problem.

The 7,500th article was Bulwagi, added by User:Dystopos on December 8.

2011

Bhamwiki's 2011 usage statistics

The 7,600th article was Dax Swatek, added by User:Dystopos on January 7.

On April 18 the Alabama Historical Association honored Bhamwiki with their inaugural "Digital History Award, Small Projects Category". The committee's criteria included "projects that made obvious contributions to promulgating Alabama history or a component thereof, that were historically accurate, that exhibited superior design and navigation practices, that incorporated innovation and multiple media, that continued to be maintained at a high level, and that engaged the broader community through social media about the projects.". The Encyclopedia of Alabama won the award in the large projects category.

The 11,900th article was Bangkok House, created by User:Dystopos on July 6.

On August 13-14 I added "CloudFlare CDN, DNS & DDoS protection to Bhamwiki and ran some long-overdue maintenance scripts on the database. Note: The CloudFlare service has interrupted my ability to review server statistics. Planning to implement Google Analytics in the future.